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Poland 1-0 Sweden - June 26, 1974 / World Cup 1974

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World Cup 1974 - Group 2 2nd round

Neckerstadion - Stuttgart - Germany

June 26, 1974

43 755

Poland

1 - 0

Sweden

Assist by Andrzej Szarmach (header) Grzegorz Lato

44'

logo Poland POL

44' - Goal Grzegorz Lato44

logo Poland POL

60' - Substitution Andrzej Szarmachis substituted by Kazimierz Kmiecik60

62' - Substitution Björn Anderssonis substituted by Jorgen Augustsson

82' - Substitution Steffan Tapperis substituted by Thomas Ahlström

logo Sweden SWE

Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Poland

1 - 0

Sweden

Poland Sweden

Team line-ups

Poland

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Gadocha

Robert Gadocha

Poland

B.date10/01/1946

Age28 years

H1m70

positionLeft Winger

Szarmach60

Andrzej Szarmach

Poland

B.date03/10/1950

Age23 years

H1m78

positionStriker

Lato44

Grzegorz Lato

Poland

B.date08/04/1950

Age24 years

H1m75

positionRight Winger

Maszczyk

Zygmunt Maszczyk

Poland

B.date03/05/1945

Age29 years

H1m75

positionLeft central midfielder

Deyna

Kazimierz Deyna

Poland

B.date23/10/1947

Age26 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Kasperczak

Henryk Kasperczak

Poland

B.date10/07/1946

Age27 years

H1m80

positionVersatile Midfielder

Gut

Zbigniew Gut

Poland

B.date17/04/1949

Age25 years

H1m81

positionRight full-back

Zmuda

Wladyslaw Zmuda

Poland

B.date06/06/1954

Age20 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

Gorgon

Jerzy Gorgon

Poland

B.date18/07/1949

Age24 years

H1m92

positionCentral defender

Szymanowski

Antoni Szymanowski

Poland

B.date13/01/1951

Age23 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Tomaszewski

Jan Tomaszewski

Poland

B.date09/01/1948

Age26 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jan Tomaszewski		26	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Wladyslaw Zmuda		20	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jerzy Gorgon		24	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Zbigniew Gut		25	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Antoni Szymanowski		23	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Zygmunt Maszczyk		29	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Henryk Kasperczak		27	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kazimierz Deyna		26	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Andrzej Szarmach	60	23	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Robert Gadocha		28	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Grzegorz Lato	44	24	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Sweden

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Edström

Ralf Edström

Sweden

B.date07/10/1952

Age21 years

H1m91

positionStriker

Sandberg

Roland Sandberg

Sweden

B.date16/12/1946

Age27 years

positionForward

Torstensson

Conny Torstensson

Sweden

B.date28/08/1949

Age24 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Grahn

Ove Grahn

Sweden

B.date09/05/1943

Age31 years

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Larsson

Bo Larsson

Sweden

B.date05/05/1944

Age30 years

H1m90

positionMidfield

Tapper82

Steffan Tapper

Sweden

B.date17/07/1948

Age25 years

H1m90

positionCentre Midfield

Andersson62

Björn Andersson

Sweden

B.date20/07/1951

Age22 years

H1m77

positionMidfield

Karlsson

Kent Karlsson

Sweden

B.date25/11/1945

Age28 years

H1m82

positionLeft central defender

Nordqvist

Bjorn Nordqvist

Sweden

B.date06/10/1942

Age31 years

positionCentral defender

Grip

Roland Grip

Sweden

B.date01/01/1941

Age33 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Hellström

Ronnie Hellström

Sweden

B.date21/02/1949

Age25 years

H1m92

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Ronnie Hellström		25	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kent Karlsson		28	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Bjorn Nordqvist		31	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Roland Grip		33	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steffan Tapper	82	25	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Björn Andersson	62	22	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Conny Torstensson		24	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Bo Larsson		30	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ove Grahn		31	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Roland Sandberg		27	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ralf Edström		21	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Kazimierz Kmiecik	60	22	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Jorgen Augustsson	62	21	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Thomas Ahlström	82	21	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Zbigniew Gut

Adam Musial

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Steffan Tapper

Ove Kindvall

OUT

Conny Torstensson

Benno Magnusson

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Kazimierz Gorski

Success rate in this team:

63 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Gorski vs Sweden

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on June 26, 1974

Gorski vs Ericson

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on June 26, 1974

Manager

Age

Match num

Georg Ericson

Success rate in this team:

49 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

51 %

Ericson vs Poland

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 26, 1974

Ericson vs Gorski

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 26, 1974

Referee

Ramon Barreto Ruiz

1 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Poland2 matches	General total	Sweden1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Poland1 match	Season total	Sweden1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on July 29, 1976					Latest figure on June 26, 1974

Videos

August 26, 2010

Comments

Key figures

End of streak for Poland after 5 matches with at least one goal conceded vs Sweden (since 23/05/1934). It's a record streak. The first of history

Poland keeps its 5 consecutive matches without a draw in World Cup running (since 05/06/1938). It's a record streak. The first of history

No Sweden manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Georg Ericson has done less than 0.94 goals conceded per game .

Read the next 30 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Neutral ground

VPoland 5-0 Morocco08/09/1972

VPoland 2-1 Hungary10/09/1972

VPoland 1-0 Mexico05/08/1973

VPoland 3-2 Argentina15/06/1974

VPoland 7-0 Haiti19/06/1974

VItaly 1-2 Poland23/06/1974

Overall

LIreland 1-0 Poland21/10/1973

DBelgium 1-1 Poland17/04/1974

VPoland 2-0 Greece15/05/1974

VPoland 3-2 Argentina15/06/1974

VPoland 7-0 Haiti19/06/1974

VItaly 1-2 Poland23/06/1974

Current form

Neutral ground

VUruguay 0-1 Sweden10/06/1970

DSoviet Union 0-0 Sweden05/08/1973

VSweden 2-1 Austria27/11/1973

DBulgaria 0-0 Sweden15/06/1974

DSweden 0-0 Netherlands19/06/1974

VSweden 3-0 Uruguay23/06/1974

Overall

LGermany 2-0 Sweden01/05/1974

VDenmark 0-2 Sweden03/06/1974

DSweden 0-0 Switzerland09/06/1974

DBulgaria 0-0 Sweden15/06/1974

DSweden 0-0 Netherlands19/06/1974

VSweden 3-0 Uruguay23/06/1974

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Winning streak	7	4
Unbeaten streak	11	5
Drawless streak	7	4
Scoring streak	14	5
Conceding streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	7	5
Drawless streak	1	1
Scoring streak	1	1
Invincibility streak	3	5

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

3	Number of games (Competition total)	3
3	Victories (Competition total)	1
0	Draws (Competition total)	2
0	Losses (Competition total)	0

Goals

12	Goals scored (Competition total)	3
3	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
4	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0

Betting aid

3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	1
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	2
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0

Bookings

1	Yellow cards (Competition total)	4
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0

Key players

Andrzej Szarmach	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Ralf Edström
Andrzej Szarmach	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Ralf Edström
Robert Gadocha	3 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	2 assists	Ove Kindvall
Robert Gadocha	3 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	2 assists	Ove Kindvall
Andrzej Szarmach	5 goals, 1 assist during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last match	Ralf Edström

Historical head to head

Home

6 matches

3 v

2 d

1 l

12 gf

11 ga

Away

7 matches

2 v

1 d

4 l

16 gf

21 ga

Total

13 matches

5 v

3 d

5 l

28 gf

32 ga

Historical head to head

Home

7 matches

4 v

1 d

2 l

21 gf

16 ga

Away

6 matches

1 v

2 d

3 l

11 gf

12 ga

Total

13 matches

5 v

3 d

5 l

32 gf

28 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	September 28, 1930
Neutral ground	No success yet

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	November 01, 1925
Neutral ground	No success yet

Latest head to head

May 18, 1966 - Rencontres amicales 1966

Poland

1 - 1

Sweden

October 07, 1964 - Rencontres amicales 1964

Sweden

3 - 3

Poland

September 14, 1947 - Rencontres amicales 1947

Sweden

5 - 4

Poland

June 23, 1937 - Rencontres amicales 1937

Poland

3 - 1

Sweden

May 23, 1934 - Rencontres amicales 1934

Sweden

4 - 2

Poland

Best historical scorers against Sweden

Wawrzyniec Stalinski	3 goals	1923 - 1928
Jozef Nawrot	2 goals	1932 - 1934
Ernest Wilimowski	2 goals	1934 - 1937
Waclaw Kuchar	2 goals	1925 - 1928
Jozef Ciszewski	2 goals	1930 - 1930
Mieczyslaw Gracz	2 goals	1947 - 1947

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 28/05/1922. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Poland

Gunnar Nordahl	2 goals	1947 - 1947
Niels Liedholm	1 goal	1947 - 1947
Bo Larsson	1 goal	1966 - 1966

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 28/05/1922. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Sweden

Waclaw Kuchar	6 matches	1922 - 1928
Wladyslaw Szczepaniak	4 matches	1930 - 1947
Wawrzyniec Stalinski	4 matches	1923 - 1928
Jerzy Bulanow	4 matches	1928 - 1934
Leon Sperling	4 matches	1922 - 1930
Stefan Fryc	3 matches	1922 - 1924

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 28/05/1922. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Poland

Nils Hult	1 match	1966 - 1966
Rolf Björklund	1 match	1966 - 1966
Bjorn Nordqvist	1 match	1966 - 1966
Roger Magnusson	1 match	1966 - 1966
Niels Liedholm	1 match	1947 - 1947
Agne Simonsson	1 match	1966 - 1966